tl;dr popular Go CLI app wants to know how to be Debian-friendly

Hi,

I'm the author of chezmoi <https://chezmoi.io>, a popular dotfile manager
<https://dotfiles.github.io/utilities> with over 9K GitHub stars written in
Go, that is available in many distributions
<https://www.chezmoi.io/install/>.

I, and chezmoi's users, would love for chezmoi to be included in Debian.
There's an existing Debian bug for this
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1012721>, and an existing
issue in the chezmoi repo <https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi/issues/2130>.

What is tricky is that chezmoi has regular releases
<https://www.chezmoi.io/reference/release-history/> (roughly, a minor
version every two weeks), including fixing security problems and updating
dependencies, that make it effectively impossible for Debian packaging to
follow.

Would you consider accepting chezmoi as a vendored package, as happened
with Kubernetes
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=971515#172>?

To support this effort, I try to be friendly to maintainers
<https://www.chezmoi.io/developer/packaging/> and will happily make any
necessary changes to the chezmoi repo.

Please advise,
Tom

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